Karen in the Inbox
And a brief review of GLF's CA Coverage
Last night’s post was super spicy.
No doubt about that.
Someone, let’s just say someone with a major environmental (Anti-Industry Industry) non-profit located in DC with an additional presence in Berkeley. One whose executives make well over six figures and one that took in a couple million in taxpayer grants. This is identifiable by the domain name on the woman’s email address.
She replied to our inbox as opposed to hopping into the comments.
Writing:
Y'all must have some serious trauma to write with such hatred. No wonder you represent no one.
Try connecting, not dividing, for once. You might be surprised!
Her message shows nothing but a profound disconnect to the points being made. We reject this framing in its entirety.
It’s a faux appeal.
Our wording was indeed strong but to describe it as “hate,” is inaccurate. We never claimed to represent anyone either. All the people and entities we mentioned in the last piece have a serial record of deceiving the regular Californians however. We’ll extend the benefit of the doubt that you’re not aware of all the details but this doesn’t look good on you.
There’s a sufficient archive on this Substack alone.
Tone Deaf and Out of Touch
The fires, floods and temperatures from the climate crisis are already hitting San Diego County, but yesterday you helped us hit back! San Diego Community Power unanimously approved our push for 100 percent renewable energy! Thanks to all those who lifted their voices, it is now the official policy of the region’s biggest green energy provider that
LA Times Trips Over Themselves Praising SF Area's Not Even Adopted Gas Phaseout Plans
Beyond Objectivity, seems to be going as planned at the newspaper for the nation’s second largest city. While the decision isn’t actually official yet, the LA Times Editorial Board, who we’ve poked at here numerous times, are already praising what will likely approved soon: a ban on* natural gas appliances in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Unbundling the CCA
I. The Mashup A few years ago a clip went viral on Youtube showing a composite of clips of several dozen local news stations saying roughtly the same messaging.
Finest City Bureaucrats and Activists Play Stupid Games [Resend]
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[The last copy of this piece was sent out behind the paywall as Substack unfortunately automatically marks posts by default as paywalled, nothing so far here at GLF is intended to be paywalled] GLF has written several pieces about the “version 2.0” of the Climate Action Plan (CAP) adopted last year by the City of San Diego starting with the piece
The Stench of B.O.
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We Can Talk About CA's Amazonian Oil Now!
“In Sacramento, it’s just crazy, when you tell lawmakers, policymakers, that this is where the oil is coming from, they have no idea.” Kevin Koenig, Director at Amazon Watch The New York Times, because they have to meddle in everything outside their special ex-landfill, publishes an email newsletter specifically for those on, or intere…
The Racism of Natural Gas Bans
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Antipode Part II
“We’re burning up. We’re choking up. We’re heating up because of these folks, and people are barely able to pay their bills because of these folks.” - CA Gov. Gavin Newsom I. Blistered Hand On August 9th, 2021, in the middle of Recallmania and the Delta variant of the COVID 19 pandemic in CA Governor Gavin Newsom was shown in a video visiting the site of…
Amazonian Antipode
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Fossil Fool Part III
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The Anti-Rural, Divisive LA Times Get Schooled
“The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.” ― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy Turns out last week’s post/rant
Chock Full of Nut Coal
In environmental discussions the quantities of pollutant involved are very difficult to visualize. What does a ton of carbon dioxide look like? Nobody knows. It’s a clear gas and the sky is huge so what does that even mean to our primate brains? - Handwaving Freakoutery
Anointed LA Times Smears Rural Residents as "Climate Deniers"
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CA Blackouts: Gaslighting or Gas-Saving
Yesterday morning, Governor Gavin Newsom, follower of The Science™, issuer of last week’s State of Emergency granting exceptions to air pollution limits, master of optics, and a HUGE reason CA is in this mess in the first place, sent out a video wearing a jacket
An Abundance of Energy Transition Cringe (ETC)
We’re going to look back someday at the Corporate Press just as we look back to the era of Yellow Journalism at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. With scorn. Author Ashley Rindsberg released a book last year specifically covering the New York Times, called
LA Times Doubles Down On Energy Illiteracy
"Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.” -
The Fatal Trifecta
Glass-ceiling breaker, chemist, Pro-Nuclear hero, anti-Malthusian/anti-Eugenic/anti-Racist, and energy author Meredith Angwin, is the author of the excellent book, Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of our Electric Grid, which provides a much needed exposé of the issues present in the areas of the US where electricity markets have been so-called “d…
The Golden State's Progressive Pig Iron Power
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There’s no “connecting” to these cretins either. Like your fellow non-profit, most engage in dividing people by immutable characteristics for political gain. They’re powerful, and they don’t give a damned about you or anyone else outside their crony circles unless it helps them.
"Y'all must have some serious trauma to write with such hatred. No wonder you represent no one. Try connecting, not dividing, for once. You might be surprised!"
You just have to love the "folksy" Y'all salutation, and expert medical and psychological diagnosis. This, along with the concluding remark about representation, then the heartfelt advice to "try connecting, not dividing..." is just stunning. How much did you have to pay Karen for this wonderful counseling session?